Improvement in harness-pad tree



J. W. HINMAN, OF BERLIN, WISCONSIN.

i Letters .Patent No. 74,823, dated February 25, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-PAD TRE-E.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, J. W. HINMAN, of Berlin, in the county of Green Lake, and State of Wisconsin, have invented n new and useful Improvement in Harness-Pad Tree; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming port of this specification.

The drawing represents my improved jointed pacha-ee.

l This invention rclates to a new and useful improvement in the construction of a. pad-tree for gig, coach, or other harness, and consists'in attaching the opposite sides or sections of the pad to n centre-piece by means of joints or hinges, whereby it is rendered flexible and se1f-adjustnble to the back of a horse, yielding, on one side orthe other, freely to his motion, and resting in an easy and comfortable manner.

A A represent the side-aps or sections of the pad-tree, secured in the ordinary way to jockey-plates, B B, by the 'cerrets a a, which are made to turn down for convenience and protection from injury. The side-sections A A are connected to o centre-piece, C, by loop or hinge-joints, crc, which allow them to open more or less, and

fit closely upon the bock of a horse of any size or shape, and set comfortably to the anim-ul.

Hoving thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A harness-pad tree, having the two sides connected with a'centre-piece by joints or hinges, to render them flexible, substantially zlsrniid for the purpose herein described.

J. W. HINMAN.

Witnesses:

A. J. WHEELER, J. N. Rooms. 

